Daily Briefing: Katrina, Ernesto, and AIDS
"Rolling Hurricane Revue" tour heads to Mississippi and Louisiana to mark today's one year anniversary of Katrina. Blame game still on, reconstruction in MS faring better than LA. [ WP , NYT ]
Tropical Storm Ernesto is weak, but FEMA Director David Paulison's "No More Fuckups" doctrine has an army of personnel in Florida. [ CNN ]
Kofi Annan wants in on the cool kids "disaster touring club," heads to southern Lebanon. [ BBC , NYT ]
Bill Clinton in Africa visiting AIDS patients, finds warm reception: "George Bush has actually delivered more resources, but Clinton is ten times more popular in Africa." [ NYT ]
President Nursultan "The Friendly Kleptocrat" Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan to visit White House in September. [ WP ]
Indiana Republican congressman Mike Pence no longer the "perfect conservative" as he tries for compromise on immigration issue. [ NYT ]
Fenty vs. Cropp televised debate yesterday -- no steel cage, just a really small table. [ WP ]